Mar 7, 2025 | The Disowned (Singing) Self
Impulse (sourced on Snappa.com, March 2025) Idea. Breath. Sound. Hesitation is deadly. We sing at our best when the channel is free. Allowing ourselves to trust that what we’ve been working on will serve us in the moment is one of the greatest challenges we...Feb 14, 2025 | Singing and Self Blog
Full Circle Pt. 2 (sourced on Snappa.com, February 2025) You’ll need to get used to this theme of Full Circle. As I move toward my final year of teaching at Laurier (yes, I turned 65. It’s a thing), I find myself reflecting more and more on my teaching...Jan 24, 2025 | Singing and Self Blog
Big Red Ball (Kimberly Barber, taken December 2024, Vancouver, BC) This week I had the pleasure of coming full circle. I had a “debriefing” with one of my former students, Dr. Elizabeth Lepock, with whom I co-taught the new course “Pedagogy and...Jan 17, 2025 | Singing and Self Blog
Girl Band (sourced on Snappa.com, January 2025) This week I made the decision to sneak back out of performing retirement. I’m joining a band. True story! Not just any band, mind you. And it’s not the kind of band you might typically think of; it’s a...Jan 10, 2025 | The Disowned (Singing) Self
Betweenness (Kimberly Barber, December 2024) Betweenness has been a persistent theme in my teaching in the past week as we returned to classes. We’ve reflected frequently on the quality of the “space between” the phases of the breath: the moment...Dec 13, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog
Photo uploaded from Snappa.com December 2024 It’s the reflective time of year, where the days get shorter, we cuddle up with a hot cup of cocoa and we settle in to think about the year that’s passed (or almost passed). For me as a solstice baby, it’s...
